Visualizing is so important to innovation. Yet, we often spend our innovation energies verbalizing. There is real power is getting out our heads and into our hands. Even a simple, “absent minded” task like doodling can make a positive impact. According...
Where has downtime gone? Recently I considered this question as I was watching a young mom walking her baby in a stroller with one hand and on her iPhone with the other–multi-tasking versus just being with her child. I hate to admit it; but I have been guilty of...
I was watching my son’s spring basketball practice the other evening and despite a lot of talented boys on the court, a lot of balls were being dropped. I started watching more closely. There were a lot of balls flying through the air and it felt oddly...
A decision has been made. What is a typical reaction? A team celebrates, breathes a sigh of relief, or feels they can “check this one off the list”. Actually, no. Decision design recognizes you are still in the decision making process. It...
For most of my career I thought of decisions as a thing, an event, a point in time. Perhaps decisions were positioned throughout the stage gate process. Or, a decision was a “go/no go” final decision. That perspective is naive and incomplete. Decisions...
